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Agentic LLM inference with long contexts is increasingly limited by memory bandwidth rather than compute. In this setting, SwiGLU MLP blocks, whose large weights exceed cache capacity, become a major yet under-optimized bottleneck. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Zixi Zhang , Zhiwen Mo , Yiren Zhao , Robert Mullins

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) are powerful tools for solving sequence-based problems, but their efficacy and execution time are dependent on the size of the network. Following recent work in simplifying these networks with model pruning…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-30 Feiwen Zhu , Jeff Pool , Michael Andersch , Jeremy Appleyard , Fung Xie

The size and compute characteristics of modern large language models have led to an increased interest in developing specialized kernels tailored for particular training and inference workloads. Existing kernels primarily optimize for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Aniruddha Nrusimha , William Brandon , Mayank Mishra , Yikang Shen , Rameswar Panda , Jonathan Ragan-Kelley , Yoon Kim

We present memory-efficient and scalable algorithms for kernel methods used in machine learning. Using hierarchical matrix approximations for the kernel matrix the memory requirements, the number of floating point operations, and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Elizaveta Rebrova , Gustavo Chavez , Yang Liu , Pieter Ghysels , Xiaoye Sherry Li

Sparse Matrix-Matrix Multiplication (SpMM) is a fundamental computation in graph analytics, scientific simulation, and sparse deep learning workloads. However, the extreme irregularity of real-world sparse matrices prevents existing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Aiying Li , Jingwei Sun , Han Li , Wence Ji , Guangzhong Sun

Data representation in quantum state space offers an alternative function space for machine learning tasks. However, benchmarking these algorithms at a practical scale has been limited by ineffective simulation methods. We develop a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-15 Mekena Metcalf , Pablo Andrés-Martínez , Nathan Fitzpatrick

Linear recurrent neural networks enable powerful long-range sequence modeling with constant memory usage and time-per-token during inference. These architectures hold promise for streaming applications at the edge, but deployment in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Alessandro Pierro , Steven Abreu , Jonathan Timcheck , Philipp Stratmann , Andreas Wild , Sumit Bam Shrestha

Multiplication of a sparse matrix to a dense matrix (SpDM) is widely used in many areas like scientific computing and machine learning. However, existing works under-look the performance optimization of SpDM on modern many-core…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Shaohuai Shi , Qiang Wang , Xiaowen Chu

We devise coresets for kernel $k$-Means with a general kernel, and use them to obtain new, more efficient, algorithms. Kernel $k$-Means has superior clustering capability compared to classical $k$-Means, particularly when clusters are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Shaofeng H. -C. Jiang , Robert Krauthgamer , Jianing Lou , Yubo Zhang

Rotation equivariant graph neural networks, i.e. networks designed to guarantee certain geometric relations between their inputs and outputs, yield state of the art performance on spatial deep learning tasks. They exhibit high data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Vivek Bharadwaj , Austin Glover , Aydin Buluc , James Demmel

Modern GPUs are able to perform significantly more arithmetic operations than transfers of a single word to or from global memory. Hence, many GPU kernels are limited by memory bandwidth and cannot exploit the arithmetic power of GPUs.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-13 J. Filipovič , M. Madzin , J. Fousek , L. Matyska

Deploying Large Language Models (LLMs) efficiently on edge devices is often constrained by limited memory capacity and high power consumption. Low-bit quantization methods, particularly ternary quantization, have demonstrated significant…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Chenyang Yin , Zhenyu Bai , Pranav Venkatram , Shivam Aggarwal , Zhaoying Li , Tulika Mitra

Disaggregation maps parts of an AI workload to different types of GPUs, offering a path to utilize modern heterogeneous GPU clusters. However, existing solutions operate at a coarse granularity and are tightly coupled to specific model…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Tiancheng Hu , Jin Qin , Zheng Wang , Junhao Hu , Yuzheng Wang , Lei Chen , Yizhou Shan , Mingxing Zhang , Ting Cao , Chunwei Xia , Huimin Cui , Tao Xie , Chenxi Wang

To address the challenge of increasing network size, researchers have developed sparse models through network pruning. However, maintaining model accuracy while achieving significant speedups on general computing devices remains an open…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Haitao Xu , Songwei Liu , Yuyang Xu , Shuai Wang , Jiashi Li , Chenqian Yan , Liangqiang Li , Lean Fu , Xin Pan , Fangmin Chen

We propose a sparse algebra for samplet compressed kernel matrices, to enable efficient scattered data analysis. We show the compression of kernel matrices by means of samplets produces optimally sparse matrices in a certain S-format. It…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-05 H. Harbrecht , M. Multerer , O. Schenk , Ch. Schwab

State-of-the-art Learned Sparse Retrieval (LSR) models, such as Splade, typically employ a Language Modeling (LM) head to project latent hidden states into a lexically-anchored logit matrix. This intermediate matrix is subsequently…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Thong Nguyen , Cosimo Rulli , Franco Maria Nardini , Rossano Venturini , Andrew Yates

FPGA architectures have recently been enhanced to meet the substantial computational demands of modern deep neural networks (DNNs). To this end, both FPGA vendors and academic researchers have proposed in-fabric blocks that perform…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Endri Taka , Ning-Chi Huang , Chi-Chih Chang , Kai-Chiang Wu , Aman Arora , Diana Marculescu

Events in spatiotemporal domains arise in numerous real-world applications, where uncovering event relationships and enabling accurate prediction are central challenges. Classical Poisson and Hawkes processes rely on restrictive parametric…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Zhitong Xu , Qiwei Yuan , Yinghao Chen , Yan Sun , Bin Shen , Shandian Zhe

Recently, in the super-resolution (SR) domain, transformers have outperformed CNNs with fewer FLOPs and fewer parameters since they can deal with long-range dependency and adaptively adjust weights based on instance. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Dongheon Lee , Seokju Yun , Youngmin Ro

Reservoir computing systems rely on the recurrent multiplication of a very large, sparse, fixed matrix. We argue that direct spatial implementation of these fixed matrices minimizes the work performed in the computation, and allows for…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Matthew Denton , Herman Schmit